I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.

The first thing you notice about women in Hollywood, besides their low percentage of body fat, is how few are married. And the number of great-looking, successful single women without a social life is staggering. ... The most glaring misconception about Hollywood is that it is the romance capital of the world.

My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one.

Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.

To whom one reports is a unit of measure. It measures the exact distance between the player and the center of power. It is the closest we can get to a calibrated answer to the question 'How big am I?' More than the size of an executive's office or even his title, which no one remembers anyway, the fewer people between the player and a 'yes,' the more powerful he is.